METAPHORS ! Greenday- Time of Your life "Good Riddance"

Another turning point; a fork stuck in the road. Time grabs you by the wrist;directs you where to go.So make the best of this testand don't ask why.It's not a questionbut a lesson learned in time.It's something unpredictablebut in the end it's right.I hope you had the time of your life.So take the photographsand still frames in your mind.Hang it on a shelfIn good health and good time.Tattoos of memoriesand dead skin on trial.For what it's worth,it was worth all the while.It's something unpredictablebut in the end it's right.I hope you had the time of your lifeIt's something unpredictablebut in the end it's right.I hope you had the time of your life.It's something unpredictablebut in the end it's right.I hope you had the time of your life.

This song realtes to my theme and genre because the singer's perspective on life is upbeat and kind of positive. He knows that life is unpredictable but you have to take it as it comes and enjoy it while it lasts. I like this perspective because it's mellow and it goes with the flow of life. The two first lines in the first verse are metaphors. "Another turning point ,a fork stuck in the road, time grabs you by the wrist, directs you were to go", this is a metaphor because there are turning points in life but there are not literal forks stuck in the road to split our direction of life. Also, time does not literally grab you by the wrist and direct you were to go, but time does give us a limit and if we do not realize this we will get lost. This song is all about how life keeps moving on no matter what you do and the best way to live is to accpet change and " have the time of your life". These two metaphors describe how life waits for noone but if you live it the right way time will be on your side and you will have fun and enjoy the time you have.

METAPHOR 2 !Incubus- Pardon Me

Pardon me while I burst...A decade ago, I never thought I would be,at twenty-three, on the verge of spontaneous combustion. -Woe-is-me.-But I guess that it comes with the territory,An ominous landscape of never-ending calamity.I need you to hear, I need you to seethat I have had all I can take andexploding seems like an imminent possibilityto me.So pardon me while I burstinto flames.I've had enough of the worldand its people's mindless games.So pardon me while I burnand rise above the flame.Pardon me, pardon me...I'll never be the same!Not two days ago,I was having a lookin a bookand I saw a picture of a guyfried up above his knee.I said, "I can relate,"cause lately I've been thinking of combusticationas a welcome vacation fromthe burdens ofthe planet Earth.like gravity, hypocrisy,and the perils of being in 3-D...but thinking so much differently. Pardon me while I burstinto flames.I've had enough of the worldand its people's mindless games.So pardon me while I burnand rise above the flame.Pardon me, pardon me...I'll never be the same!Never be the same, yeah...Pardon me, while I burst into flames...Pardon me, pardon me, pardon me.So pardon me while I burstinto flames.I've had enough of the worldand its people's mindless games.So pardon me while I burnand rise above the flame.Pardon me, pardon me...I'll never be the same!Never be the same, yeahh!!

This song realtes to me theme and genre because the singers perspective on life is very pesimistic! He is talking about being young (23) and being on the verge of combustion because the world is a "burden" and the people in it play "mindless games". He wants to leave the world and escape from all the tradegy and harm it has to offer. The first metaphor in the lyrics are "An ominous landscape of never-ending calamity", he is descrbing what the world looks like to him. This line means he is seeing a landscape or never ending desolation and tradgey. The second metaphor is "Pardon me while i burst into flames", he says this because he is complating bursting into flames and disappearing, which is obviously impossible but he wishes he could do it to get away from the world and the troubles it burdens us with. The third line says " Pardon me while i burn and rise above the flames", this is a reference to a pheonix. A pheonix is a mythical bircd said to live 500 years, burst into flames and than rise from the ashes as a newborn. This metaphor describes how he wants to burst into falmes much like the bird, and rise above them meaning come out a new person, refreshed with a new start. He is coming out restored after suffereing great calamity. This is a really good metaphor because it's a comparison to a creature that the singer is jealous of because he wishes he could do that, unfortunatly it is impossible. Those are th eonly metaphores but they are really good ones!

SIMILIE ! A Loss For Words- All Roads Lead Home

I climbed to the top of this mountain with no fear of tumbling down. for one brief moment in time i freed my mind of this town. got clear sight of lights on the hills just outside the city's grip and just like that i let the moment sleep.

every face seems familiar on these crowded streets,
Sidewalks sway to the beat of my stammering feet,
Lost in a world of handshakes and receipts,
I hear a song it's calling out to me.

The people are aligned on the road like candle pins.
Wobbling above gutters humming old retired hymns.
Can't you see it's all a cavalcade of delusion stares and
Just like that we are prone to disappear.

[chorus]

Whats the price that you pay for living everyday like a number on a docket, a dollar to be saved? whats the price you pay when you give yourself away with swollen fists in your pocket, from the workhouse to your grave?

Let's pray we don't end up this way

This song only has two similes but it relates very well to my theme and genre. Unfortunately i cannot figure out how to get this song on my play list :( Anyways, it relates to my theme and genre because it's acoustic of course and the perspective on life is very different than most of these other songs. The singer's perspective on life has to do with how he views the world in a neg. way and he hopes that he never end up like that because it is monotone and boring. He says that "the people are aligned on the road like candle pains", meaning that they resemble robots who don't think for themselves and they are just going about their lives like they think they're supposed to instead of how they want to. He is describing the unfortunate and scary realization about people in the world and how they are all the same because they are so caught up. In the next verse he says "Whats the price that you pay for living everyday like a number on a docket", the singer is asking rhetorical question about the price you pay for living. By this he means that people give up their lives to live "live a number on a docket" which means that you live your life referred to as just another number not as a real person. Those are the only two similes.

SIMILIE 2 !Sometime Around Midnight

This song is by Toxic Airborn Event and it's called "Sometime Around Midnight"

And it starts, sometime around midnight. Or at least that’s when you lose yourselffor a minute or two. As you stand, under the bar lights .And the band plays some songabout forgetting yourself for a while. And the piano’s this melancholy soundtrack to her smile. And that white dress she’s wearingyou haven’t seen her for a while.
But you know, that she’s watching. She’s laughing, she’s turning. She’s holding her tonic like a cross. The room’s suddenly spinning. She walks up and asks how you are. So you can smell her perfume. You can see her lying naked in your arms.
And so there’s a change, in your emotions. And all these memories come rushing like feral waves to your mind. Of the curl of your bodies, like two perfect circles entwined And you feel hopeless and homelessand lost in the haze of the wine.
Then she leaves, with someone you don’t know. But she makes sure you saw her. She looks right at you and bolts. As she walks out the door,your blood boiling your stomach in ropes .Oh and when your friends say,“What is it? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.”
Then you walk, under the streetlights. And you’re too drunk to notice,that everyone is staring at you. You just don’t care what you look like, the world is falling around you.
You just have to see her. You just have to see her. You just have to see her. You just have to see her. You just have to see her. You know that she’ll break you in two.

I really like this song , there are alot of similies in the lyrics and the acoustic verison helps the song to fit in my genre. It's a little hard to relate to my genre but the singers perspective on life could revolve around this girl. He is awe stricken when he sees her for the first time in a while and she obviously is having a major impact on him. He does not care about anything going on around him because he is so wrapped in seeing this girl who he knows will "break him in two". It's a sad song but the similies in it are perfect for this assignment. I put in bold all the similies ,the first one is "she's holding her tonic like a cross", meaning that she is gripping the drink with a firm hand almost as a means of support because she see's her ex-boyfriend. She gets nervous and holds on tight to the drink as if it would somehow magiclly give her strenght like a cross would. In the next verse there are two more simlies "like feral waves to your mind" and "like two perfect circles entwinded". Feral waves to your mind mean wild thoughts occuring in your mind, or in the singers case a feral memories coming out of nowhere and taking over. Two perfect cicrles entwinded means that there bodies fit together like puzzle pieces and he is remembering this because the feral memories rushing into his mind make him remember. The last similie in this song is "you look like you've seen a ghost" , obviously he didn't see a real ghost but he saw his ex girl friend and to him she resembles a ghost because she is able to stop him in his path and make him feel emotionaly unstable. This is a really good song in my opinion and the lyrics are well written with a ton of similies :)

Lyrics to Soco Amaretto Lime

"Soco Amaretto Lime"

Passed out on the overpass
Sunday best and broken glass
Broken down from the bikes and bars
Suspended like spirits over speeding cars
You and me were kings over the parkway tonight
And tonight will go on forever while we
walk around this town like we own the streets
and stay awake through summer like we own the heat
Singing "everybody wake up (wake up) it's time to get down"
(everybody, everybody wake up its time to get down)
And when I pass the bottle back to Pete
on the overpass tonight, I bet we laugh

I'm gonna stay eighteen forever (cut me open)
So we can stay like this forever (sun poisoned)
And we'll never miss a party (this offer...)
cause we keep them going constantly (...stands forever)
And we'll never have to listen (new haircut)
to anyone about anything (new bracelet)
cause it's all been done and it's all been said (eyeliner)
we're the coolest kids and we take what we can get

The hell out of this town
Find some conversation
The low fuel lights been on for days
It doesn't mean anything
I've got another 500, 'nother 500 miles
before we shut this engine down,
we shut it down

I'm gonna stay eighteen forever (cut me open)
So we can stay like this forever (sun poisoned)
And we'll never miss a party (this offer...)
cause we keep them going constantly (...stands forever)
And we'll never have to listen (new haircut)
to anyone about anything (new bracelet)
cause it's all been done and it's all been said (eyeliner)
we're the coolest kids and we take what we can get (wait forever)

(you're just jealous cause I'm young and in love)
Eighteen forever (first kisses)
(your stomach's filled up but you're starved for conversation)
So we can stay like this forever (new stitches)
(you're spending all your nights growing old in your bed)
And we'll never miss a party (collar weekend)
(and your tearin up your photos cause you wanna forget... it's over)
cause we keep them going constantly (appearance ticket)
(you're just jealous cause I'm young and in love)
And we'll never have to listen (November to...)
(your stomach's filled up but you're starved for conversation)
to anyone about anything cause it's all been done (...remember)
(you're spending all your nights growing old in your bed)
and it's all been said (nightswimmers)
(and your tearin up your photos cause you wanna forget... it's over)
we're the coolest kids and we take what we can get

Just jealous cause we're young and in love
You're just jealous cause we're young and in love
You're just jealous cause we're young and in love
You're just jealous cause we're young and in love
You're just jealous cause we're young and in love
You're just jealous...

Swing Life Away

Swing Life Away :Rise Against
"Am I loud and clear or am I breaking up?Am I still your charm or am I just bad luck?Are we getting closer, are we just getting more lost?I'll show you mine if you show me yours firstLet's compare scars I'll tell you whose is worseLet's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words[Chorus]We live on front porches and swing life awayWe get by just fine here on minimum wage If love is a labor I'll slave 'til the endI won't cross these streets until you hold my hand I've been here so long; think that its time to moveThe winter's so cold summer's over too soonso let's pack our bags and settle down where palm trees growI've got some friends, some that I hardly knowBut we've had some times I wouldn't trade for the worldWe chase these days down with talks of the places that we will go[Chorus]We live on front porches and swing life awayWe get by just fine here on minimum wage If love is a labor I'll slave 'til the endI won't cross these streets until you hold my hand, until you hold my handI'll show you mine if you show me yours firstLet's compare scars I'll tell you whose is worseLet's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words[Chorus]We live on front porches and swing life awayWe get by just fine here on minimum wage If love is a labor I'll slave 'til the endI won't cross these streets until you hold my handSwing life awaySwing life awaySwing life awaySwing life away"


The first song on my play list is "Swing Life Away" by Rise Against. To me this song holds a very meaningful perspective on life because it shows the importance of love over money. The writer wants to focus his life around happiness rather than money and this is a dream of his. He is obviously having some relationship problems "am i still your charm or am i just bad luck" but he is willing to do whatever it takes to fix things and make them better " i wont cross these streets until you hold my hand". His perspective on life through this acoustic song expresses the things in life that hold meaning to him. His love, his friendships and his happiness. Money is not a factor, "we get by just fine here on minimum wage" this shows just how unimportant materialistic things are to him. He wants to live somewhere warm so he can settle down with his girlfriend and "swing life away", meaning live simply day by day with no complications or worries. He feels fulfilled with the life he has lead and the people that have impacted him "Ive got some friends, some that i hardly know but we've had some times i wouldn't trade for the world". Though his experiences may not have been the most extravagant is does not matter because he was happy during those times and he would not trade those friends or good times for anything.
Now he is willing to give everything up just to make his girlfriend happy "if love is a labor I'll slave til the end" and by doing this he wants to pack up and move "where palm trees grow"..he is determine to take her away from the miserable life in the cold and create her a happy simple life where they can grow old together and focus on love.
I think this is a very good acoustic song for this theme because it's different from the usual perspectives today that focus on money, fame and worthless things. The song writer is expressing the importance of love over money and friendships over fame through lyrics that prove them to be a better life style because they are genuine feelings.